| 来源类型 | Discussion paper
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| 规范类型 | 论文
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| 来源ID | DP13140
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| DP13140 Learning from failure across products |
| Tobias Kretschmer
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| 发表日期 | 2018-08-24
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| 出版年 | 2018
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Learning rates for the same or similar products differ significantly across firms. One reason for this heterogeneity may be that most firms are multiproduct firms and that they learn both within and across the products they produce and sell. Moreover, the organization of production and the technological design of (families of) products may affect the extent of learning across products. We study learning from failures within and across products in the US automotive industry, using safety recalls as a particularly costly form of product failure. We find that firms indeed learn from failure across products, but learning is faster if products use a common technological platform or are produced in a common plant. Severe product failures involving a supplier also lead to increased across-product learning. Our results shed light on the characteristics of firms’ learning from failure across products and extend the existing literature, which typically studies learning at the firm or the product level and thus misses out on an important channel for learning in manufacturing contexts. |
| 主题 | Industrial Organization
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| 关键词 | Organizational learning
Learning from failure
Product recalls
Automotive industry
Multiproduct firms
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| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp13140
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| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/541943
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Tobias Kretschmer. DP13140 Learning from failure across products. 2018.
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